Casablanca

2.75
    Casablanca
    1943

    Synopsis

    In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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    Cast

    • Humphrey BogartRick Blaine
    • Ingrid BergmanIlsa Lund
    • Paul HenreidVictor Laszlo
    • Claude RainsCaptain Louis Renault
    • Conrad VeidtMajor Heinrich Strasser
    • Sydney GreenstreetSignor Ferrari
    • Peter LorreUgarte
    • S.Z. SakallCarl
    • Madeleine LebeauYvonne
    • Dooley WilsonSam

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The dialogue is so spare and cynical it has not grown old-fashioned. Much of the emotional effect of Casablanca is achieved by indirection; as we leave the theater, we are absolutely convinced that the only thing keeping the world from going crazy is that the problems of three little people do after all amount to more than a hill of beans.
    • 100

      Empire

      Much more fun than its stuffy "Greatest Film Ever Made" tag suggests, with a literate script, stylish direction, a great song and cinema's most romantic couple in Bogie and Bergman.
    • 100

      ReelViews

      Casablanca accomplishes that which only a truly great film can: enveloping the viewer in the story, forging an unbreakable link with the characters, and only letting go with the end credits.
    • 100

      Slant Magazine

      The film has a peculiar magic to it, and because of its pace the richness of its sense of detail often goes unnoticed.
    • 100

      The Guardian

      Seventy years on, this great romantic noir is still grippingly powerful: a movie made at a time when it was far from clear the Nazis were going to lose.
    • 100

      Variety

      Despite the fact that the fortunate turn or military events has removed the city of Casablanca, in French Morocco, from the Vichyfrance sphere and has thus in one respect dated the film, the combination of fine performances, engrossing story and neat direction make that easily forgotten. Film should be a solid moneymaker everywhere.
    • 100

      The New Yorker

      The most familiar movie in the world is still fresh; it has so many little busy corners to nestle in... Casablanca is the most sociable, the most companionable film ever made. Life as an endless party.
    • 100

      The Telegraph

      There are some of the very finest character actors that Warner Brothers could muster and a rich, detailed screenplay studded with an indecent number of sparklingly quotable lines. It is a movie to play again, and again.

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